QUOTE (I_Wong @ Jul 7 2004, 01:29 AM)
Retaliation is only getting more hatred between the two sides.
This kind of philosophy is futile. The ultimate goal is to no make yourself an easy target, and a wuss.
Kulong and his friends made a thread PURPOSELY with the ONLY motive being to insult us Viets. You say i should've retaliated by creating one insulting the Chinese?
You can do whatever you want. People are racist because they have larger than life ego. all i am saying is that when people attack you race; you should attack back. I did this with white people when they attacked asian people with dog eating stereotypes, so i had attacked back with their own recial stereoptype, and eventually, they shut the hell up.
Viets believe in integrity, by letting lowlives get to me, or letting them turn me into a lowlife, i'm not representing the Viet people. When people come back to read this in say ten days, who would be at fault? Not everyone is stupid and can't see through all this.
The degree of the insults are different, but nontheless, the insulted peoples are still insulted.
This kind of philosophy will not work.
A wuss? You think insults like this ultimately DESERVES me to lower myself down to their level? Seriously. IF it was something serious, like he, IN REAL LIFE, beat up my sister, then i surely would burn down his house in REAL LIFE. But this is a war of words. If he said Viets were UNCIVILIZED, which was his main point in his insults, and i turn around and insult him back with uncivilized words; didn't i just PROVE he was right? But say in turn, i respond with integrity and logic, while he in turn respond with hypocrisy and cowardice, then who was the one who was wrong in the first place?
Like i said, at the moment by retaliating you may feel good. And you might make the person feel angry by giving them their own "medicine". But like i said, in ten days, when people read these threads, who is the one at fault? It can clearly be seen, and the person who retains his integrity, the person to NOT let a lowlife change who he is wins.
He called my people barbarians, i was trying to get him to stop, and to prove that we weren't. So your saying i should've retaliated in barbaric ways? Would've made me hypocrite, living on illogical, irrational, and unrespectable principles.
Also, the thing is the flame war has been going on for a very long time. Long before i even signed up. It obviously never stopped after retaliation.
Edit: Plus, it does seem that barkerintokyo wants to stop, and the bashing him or his people didn't help him come to that feeling from how he puts it, it was other factors.